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but smiling faces, laughing for everything like children, singing all the time during the work, I mean special song that has the same rythm the work has-
I have a room in Chinese build house, primitive furniture and glad for the good mosquito net I brought with me. The place is infested with malaria and I hear them damn mosquitos around the net all the night like dive bombers, asking for blood-  Food is good, chinese food, chop stiks etc.  Have to drink allways boild water and hot-  Hot water that [[strikethrough]] doesn't [[/strikethrough]] taste like coton-
The trip "over the hump" was good - we flew at 16.000 foot but I didn't have any trouble It was very cold but a nice day so I enjoyed a really good sight of the big mountains - I had a couple of letters from you (with the Mark Twain & O. Wilde from Reader's Digest) and I'm glad you had the message "darling" from me. Not word yet of the telegram I send you from Colombo Ceylon - you probably had that one also - mail is very incidental here and it comes when possible, not regularly I mean, but we receive everything is sent to us - so write me often, you